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  1. This is all very interesting, but what would all these committees actually be for?

     

    I can't see the point in building big organisations for something that doesn't need organising.

     

    That's not to say that there is no need for various committees (maybe there are other threads I haven't read yet which address this).

     

    BTW the camel is a superbly well adapted animal for the habitat in which it lives. If it was designed by a committee it was a good one.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  2. Some of you may have been aware that I have been talking to Mark and Ian about moving the trigpoint logging system to gcuk.com. Well, they have decided to set up their own site in competition instead.

     

    For me, not to be involved in the "official site" is extremely disappointing (feels like a kick in the teeth in fact). However, there isn't room for two sites and they have more time and resources so their site will inevitably be better than mine. I have therefore taken the decision that as soon as they have full functionality, my site will go down.

     

    To be honest, this has soured my feelings about the whole geocaching "community" thing. I expect I'll get over it as soon as I have something controversial I want to say on the forum icon_smile.gif but for now I'm taking a sabatical.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  3. I don't understand this. How do you set the accuracy of a GPS receiver? mine has no functionality to say "I am at this known location".

     

    Further, the OS trigpoints are set based on the OS GB36 datum. It's impossible to convert between this and WGS84 (used by the GPS system) accurately without access to lots of sophisticated transformational data, probably not in your consumer GPSr. "Accurately" means within 5 metres or so. This is only slightly better than you can get from a GPS receiver anyway.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  4. quote:
    Originally posted by Team Blitz (Michael):

    You frog.gif

     

    Mike

     

    This forum post is copyright 2003 to Michael Blitz and may not be re-produced in part or full without prior written consent.

     

    Copyright 2003 All rights reserved

     


     

    Do you own the copyright on that frog.gif symbol? If not, I will remind you that it is illegal to claim copyright (as you yourself have pointed out) on your post.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  5. quote:
    Originally posted by Wood Smoke:

    I also only give the GPS of the cache and let finders work the rest out for themselves.

     

    WoodSmoke


     

    In general I agree with this. Part of the fun is working out how to get to the cache. However, there are circumstances where you might want to give a little more info which usually come down to "will the cacher get into trouble if he doesn't know this". e.g. "The Stutton Stour Stationery Stash" has recommended parking coordinates to avoid cachers having their cars towed away or wrecked by the locals taking issue with careless and illegal parking. My own "Thames Valley Trigpoint Trail" has a time associated with it because it is not a five minute job and does require some planning.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  6. We will never be able to come to an agreement with the Mod Ants about guidelines for placing caches near to ancient monuments. We have an obsessive desire to plant caches and they have an obsessive desire to keep people away from ancient monuments. Both sides think the other is unreasonable. We have no overlap to compromise.

     

    If somebody is going to complain about a small plastic box 50 metres away from a standing stone, I don't think there is anything we can say. Sure there may be ancient burial grounds around (note 'may'). But these are by nature underground. If we were burying caches, then there is a complaint, but we're not. Why are they picking on cachers over just anybody who walks over one of these sites?

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  7. There was a story on slashdot witha similar theme. It's all pure speculation. Indeed the article referred to by The Register is inaccurate. It states that GPS was turned off during the last Gulf War. In fact it was selective availability that was turned off - to allow the troops to use civilian GPS receivers which are (or were) generally more functional than the military ones available at the time.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  8. quote:
    Originally posted by Wood Smoke:

    The big advantage to 'Get a Map' for me is the size of the maps. I am on holiday in Wales atm, and connecting to the net with my laptop and mobile at 9.6k. The maps at 'Get a Map' are so much smaller that 'Streetmap' that is why I use them.


    Have you considered buying a paper map of the area? Landranger sheets are generally about £10. The little tiles on getamap are useless except for the final approach to the cache. A full sized paper map will help you with the approach to the location as well.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  9. quote:
    Originally posted by Wood Smoke:

    In the UK our grid references are in the format

     

    AAxxxyyy

     

    AA = Two letters which shows a main area

    xxx = Three numbers for east/west coordinates

    yyy = Three numbers for the north/west coordinates

     


     

    The 6 figure grid reference is useless for geocaching as it only gives a location to the nearest 100 metres. Grid references in geocaching.com are 10 figure references with 5 digits for eastings and 5 digits for northings.

     

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    On the cache pages there is a variety of numbers (up to ten sometimes) and they do not always work.


    There should always be 10 figures. There may be a problem with displaying leading zeoes on gc.com maybe.

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    This web page http://www.getamap.co.uk/frames.htm is where you would go to get the map.

     

    As you can see it requires coordinates in the format I have stated above.


    Well it's crap then. It should understand 10 figure references.

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    Can you please change the coordinates on the cache pages to match the required system in the UK please?


    You're talking to the wrong people. We have no real say in how the site looks. I doubt if many of us would want it changed anyway.

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    And take out the spaces so we can just copy & paste it straight into the map page please?


    The spaces make 10 figure refs more human readable. I don't think we should lose this just because of some website's poor parsing software.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  10. Benchmarks are marks at a fixed known location which are used as reference points for surveying. The benchmarks in the geocaching database are all ones in the US. The closest equivalent we have in the UK is the trigpoint network. Most trigpoints are now disused due to various systems based on GPS.

     

    There was some effort put into getting our trigpoints into the Geocaching database but it stalled for reasons that are not clear to me. Because of this, we now have our own trigpoint database.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  11. quote:
    Originally posted by conedxf & family:

     

    I think you'll find that the troll fails to eat any billy goats, and ends up being butted into the river, never to be seen againicon_wink.gif

     

    This posting was brought to you courtesy of my wife (a Nursery Nurse and fussy with it) icon_biggrin.gif


     

    I thought it was one particular billy goat that butted the troll into the river and lots more had already crossed and been eaten.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  12. quote:
    Originally posted by Team Blitz:

     

    Actually, Michael can't copyright 'Michael Blitz' anyway.... I copyrighted the 'Blitz' bit ages ago!!!!


     

    But Michael Blitz can't copyright Michael Blitz anyway, since it is not his original work. In fact even the statement "copyright Michael Blitz" breaches your copyright on "Michael Blitz". You could grant him a lifetime licence to use it though or transfer the copyright to him.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  13. quote:
    Originally posted by Tim & June:

     

    By the way, a Troll is not someone who trashes caches. Briefly, a troll is someone who places a post on a forum in an attempt to start a flame war or argument.

     


     

    I thought a troll was somebody who hides under bridges and eats any billy goats that cross them.

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  14. quote:
    Originally posted by Omally:

    quote:
    Originally posted by jeremyp:

    Great! Now I can breach two copyrights with the push of a single button. icon_smile.gif

     

    [copyright © 2003 Jeremy Pereira]

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

     

    It's a tradition, or an old charter or something...


     

    Dear Mr Omally. May I bring your attention to the copyright notice at the bottom of my post that you quite flagrantly reproduced as part of yours. I remind you that under copyright law in the UK, it is illegal to reproduce other people's original work without their permission which was not granted in this case. I would therefore ask you to cease and desist or I'll sue the pants off you. icon_smile.gif

     

    Have a nice day.

     

    [copyright © 2003 Jeremy Pereira. All seats reserved.]

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

  15. Great! Now I can breach two copyrights with the push of a single button. icon_smile.gif

     

    quote:
    Originally posted by Bill D (wwh):

    quote:
    Originally posted by jeremyp:

    quote:

    Originally posted by Michael Blitz:

     

    When I log on to find new caches in the sysyem, i usually click on "UK" on the homepage and then look at the hiders name, this usually gives me a good enough idea of whether they are close or not. I used to use the "cache map" but i tend not to now because it takes ages to load. Teasels map is good but as G:UK doesn't get cache info nas soon as it comes online, it can be a bit behind.

     

    Mike

     

    This forum post is copyright 2003 to Michael Blitz and may not be re-produced in part or full without prior written consent.

     

    Copyright 2003 All rights reserved


     

    In another thread, I posted a reply to the above message just because I wanted to see how it felt to breach somebody's copyright. And it felt gooooood! Unfortunately, it led to a lot more off topic posts by others. So to avoid swamping that topic I have reproduced it here (in itself a breach of copyright) so that everybody can have a chance to breach Michael's copyright (sorry Michael) without upsetting any topic starters.

     

    If _you_ want to breach Michael's copyright, just post a reply to this message using the double-quote button.

     

    If you are Michael, please do not post a message saying we have permission to reproduce this message cos it'll spoil the fun icon_smile.gif

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

     

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    This post is copyright Bill D (wwh) 2003 and may not be reproduced in any form in part or in whole except with the express permission of the author.

     

    Bill


     

    [copyright © 2003 Jeremy Pereira]

     

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    jeremyp

    The second ten million caches were the worst too.

    http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

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